Overwriter's Anonymous

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[BlackShanglan]

*laugh* I like it.

You know, I often let myself just do this in the first draft. I throw down three or four spongy and general words and move on with the draft, knowing that when I return to edit, I'll be looking to cut them back to the one precise word I want. Sometimes whole sentences come in gummy, vague clumps and eventually are pruned back (if I'm on a good day).

But then, I don't enjoy drafting. It's my least favorite part. So it's worth it to me to get it over with and then come back to the revision, which I quite enjoy.

 

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[Jenny_Jackson]

I guess that makes me an Underwriter. Stories are fine, but the words get in the way.

 

[Stella_Omega]

"The difference between the right and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug." -Mark Twain

Doesn't help much, does it?

 

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[Lauren Hynde]

Overtroll! If someone wants to overwrite, he/she should have the balls to do it signed in under his/her posting name. Anonymity brings out the worst in people.

 

[tickledkitty]

I think nothing is really supposed to help, except the one word at a time idea, realize I am powerless over them, and just try not to go on those binges... those extra words, that extra run-on sentence... they look so good. So good on paper.

Look to your higher power, hun. Need a sponsor?

 

[poppy1963]

Overtroll! If someone wants to overwrite, he/she should have the balls to do it signed in under his/her posting name. Anonymity brings out the worst in people.

I have thought frequently about formally submitting some of my poetry and expanding some vignettes I've written into stories and submitting those as well. But well...I am a bit of a controversy in some circles on another Board here and I just know that submitting under my own posting name would be very masochistic, which I am not truly, despite how it looks at times. That's all I'll say on that here. I'd have trollers coming by and rating things based on their desire to do no good on me and make me feel and appear HORRID.

So if I ever decide to formally submit some stuff, I'll have to do it under a pseudoaltnymn...lol! I'm sure there are a few others in this situation too.

I don't take a whole NEW alt because I prefer people to know me as much as possible as I really am or there would be no point for me being here really. This be me...like it or leave it or troll it if you must...but this be me.

 

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[Stella_Omega]

Uhhh, was I too anonymous?

Now, TK is not me, I know that. I guess sponsors are pretty important on the road to recovery... so, sure.

So if I change to Tihmmnmm, that's bad?

I've lately wondered about writing under another name, just to see if adopting a different voice might help - probably not.

Didn't mean to cause a ruckus - just hoped to look at these struggles with a little laugh.

I like the name Tihmmnmm, if that's what you're asking-- I like it a lot!

Go post a run-on sentence with your new handle, I started that challenge just for you

 

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[Tihmmnmm]

Like the hat?

 

[tickledkitty]

Ruckus? Nah. I was joking when I posted. Sorry if it didn't read that way.

I like your name. Soft and uncertain? No. Gentle, yes. Nothing wrong with that. It also seems thoughtful and wondering to me. Also smart, but in an unintimidating way. Gentle, thoughtful, and smart. I guess that sums it up. That's how you seem to me.

I've thought about changing my name too. People know me by it now though, and I'm so close to 1000 posts. So I don't know if I will or not. I've kind of been wishing I'd chosen a real pen name, something that is more like a real name.

 

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[bluebell]

I like your name. Soft and uncertain? No. Gentle, yes. Nothing wrong with that. It also seems thoughtful and wondering to me. Also smart, but in an unintimidating way. Gentle, thoughtful, and smart. I guess that sums it up. That's how you seem to me.

Seconded.
It now also makes me think of cotton, ahem, undergarments...

Edited to say: I wrote that ^ above statement before you posted that above statement!

I've thought about changing my name too. People know me by it now though, and I'm so close to 1000 posts. So I don't know if I will or not. I've kind of been wishing I'd chosen a real pen name, something that is more like a real name.

Also seconded (for me).
After I learned the Lit protocol, I realized that this name sounds more like an alt than a real name.
I've seen people change their names and put "Formerly such-and-such" in their sig line. But starting all over!

Blast and damn, the pixies have won again.
(No, I don't know what that means but to me it spells dissatisfaction! Ah ha!)

 

[Stella_Omega]

Like the hat?

Try tipping it forward, and straighten the brim...

I like a man in a hat, personally

 

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[NoJo]

blurt

There, timmnnnmmm, I edited it for ya

 

[BlackShanglan]

A couple years ago I discovered the Live Journal, and realized you could have as many accounts as you wanted. I got pretty excited about that. So I went ahead and set up several, each for a different voice or flavor or intent. One was going to be a spinoff of the old Mess Hall. Another was to be my spiritual page (since I did the ULC ordainment a couple years before that). Another was going to be off-beat news, I was going to play a reporter. Yet another was going to be more philosophical. And finally, one I was just going to be myself.

Total amount of work on any of them: nearly nil.

Whatever that means.

*chuckles*

Sometimes voice switching can twist my tail up for me. I enjoy playing Puzzle Pirates, an online game, primarily for the opportunity to spend an hour saying things like "Arrr! Get to work, ye scurvy dogs, or it be the plank fer the lot o' ye!" But when I switch from that to Lit, I feel some faint concern that my head might explode.

 

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